Empire Made Me: An Englishman Adrift in Shanghai by Robert Bickers

Empire Made Me: An Englishman Adrift in Shanghai

Robert Bickers

409 pages first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction biography history dark informative mysterious slow-paced
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Richard Maurice Tinkler was an ordinary man in an extraordinary time and place. This riveting "biography of a nobody" offers a rare glimpse of imperialism and the making of modern China seen from the perspective of a working-class Englishman enfor...

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